CITIZENSHIP LAWS OF INDIA WITH A CRITICAL ANALYSIS OF THE CITIZENSHIP (AMENDMENT) ACT, 2019 AND THE NATIONAL REGISTER OF CITIZENS
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The concept of citizenship includes a set of rights and duties for an individual. Citizenship provides an identity, bestows a status, and gives a notion of certainty to an individual. There have been lot of debates regarding the grant of citizenship to immigrants and refugees. Different nations have different laws in this regard. The Citizenship Act of India, 1955 has undergone many amendments and some of them have sparked debates and discussions. The Citizenship (Amendment) Act of 2019 has sparked country-wide protests in India and has been criticised for the overt use of religion as a criterion for the citizenship laws. The declaration by the Home Ministry of India about the country-wide application of the National Register of Citizens has also not been well-received on the grounds of its poor results in the state of Assam. In this paper, the researcher has examined the controversial provisions of the Citizenship (Amendment) Act, 2019. The researcher has further examined the origins and the challenges posed by the National Register of Citizens in Assam. This paper also deals with the connections between the aforementioned amendment act and the aforementioned citizen register as well as the National Population Register. The researcher concludes that the Citizenship Amendment Act, 2019 is flawed and the model of National Register of Citizens has to be improved. The researcher has given some suggestions for the improvement of the situation.
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